You’re more likely to hear examples of hyperbaton than you are to hear the word itself. From the Latin “hyperbatos,” meaning “transposed, inverted,” and the Greek “hyperbainein,” meaning “to step over,” hyperbaton is a linguistic phenomenon in which the traditional or idiomatic order of words are transposed. Think of the way the “Star Wars” character Yoda speaks. In “The Last Jedi,” he advises, “The greatest teacher, failure is.” That swapped word order is classic hyperbaton.